Ghostlier Demarcations, Keener Sounds
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IN MEDIAS RES
The narrative fallacy is our tendency to create coherent stories with inevitable sequences out of disconnected facts and random events. Along with it we see linear cause-and-effect coherence when there is mere coincidence or correlation without cause and effect. Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias that has found, perversely, when we have low ability, skill,…
Out of All This Now
revised How to describe what many are now feelingAcutely sharp that leaves them fearful, reelingWith anxious longings for a simpler time,An echo of imaginary rhyme? The carpet once new many years hence nowHopelessly stained, a thing to disavow,This is our life, the place we live in now.We walked it here this way and came long…
Commuted Sentences: Two Movies Separated by 25 Years, Worlds Apart
Falling Down (1993) and The Commuter (2018): Two movies separated by twenty-five years, roughly one generation, present noticeably different attitudes to roughly the same concepts and societal conditions. How those “societal conditions” are portrayed are startingly different as well. The two main characters represent a similar type: White male working man with a family. The…
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